Recent content by puppykickr

both of the above mentioned apps have ads, so a firewall would be desired anyway. this is yet another reason i went the route that i did. anyway, i have locate a cheap android 10 in my collection, and it even has Google poo that 'cant' be turned off, so it should work fine for the test...

i have devices of much lower caliber, but i think that may help in this respect since we are testing for excessive memory use. the first thing i would do on your part is to open developers options and check runnimg services to see what apps are using the most memory. then leave this open in...

i use Video Transcoder from F-droid and YouCut from Uptodown.

thank you for this information. it is exactly this type of thing that makes me not want to use any Google app.

i may have a device that i could use for the purpose but i am limited on internet at this time. if you post links and the device info, i can see what devices i have that could be similar, and test them for you. as far as a microphone blocking app goes, as far as i understand they can only...

is it the manufacturers or is it the carriers? seems more of a carrier thing to be locked up like that

if i find out a friend has alexa or similar i love asking it inappropriate questions about current events six million cookies, immigration, etc. i get off on making absurd and/or unkind searches with it, fully relishing the fact that i am skewing results for future searches long after i am...

https://shizuku.rikka.app/guide/setup/

https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=rob+braxman+degoogled

i believe that Brax has degoogled phones for sale they are not real cheap, but they dont have google on them

if i get somewhere with some wifi i will make you a video of how i get it to work sometimes its easy but other times it can be a pain to get shizuku to start im supposed to go to the library sometime today, so if that happens then i will attempt to make a screen recording video with all the...

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This is what happens when you watch Youtube. Your only options are to pay for Youtube Premium, or to use an ad-free Youtube frontend app. The ads on Youtube are a big reason why I dont watch things on Youtube very often. If I do, I often turn to one of the ad-free frontends that also offer...

this is but one reason that i use KISS launcher. it allows me to type settings shortcuts right into the search bar on the home screen. also, this seems a time to bring up how i put utility apps and other things that i want on any device onto an SD card that i install before i ever turn it on...

or open F-droid settings repositories (PLUS button) enter repository URL manually copy/paste the following without the dots before and after ...https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo... enter and wait for the repository to load then find Shizuku and Canta and install them